Management consulting is an industry built on facts. A “fact-based decision” (a phrase that returns 1.8 million Google results) requires legions of analysts to gather and crunch data, and it so happens that consulting firms supply precisely such people. Facts appear to de-politicize decisions, imposing objectivity and facilitating difficult choices. Who but an imbecile could […]

What will you decide to be curious about Monday morning? That’s a question that former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley routinely asks himself. For him, the willful decision to get curious about something new has led him to some amazing insights. For example, a few years ago Lafley wanted to get Peter Drucker‘s thoughts […]

(Editor’s note: This post is part of the HBR Debate “What Does Business Owe the World?”) What must our organizations do today to help our country maintain its greatness and to sustain the democracy? What does business owe the world? These are not abstract questions we can ignore as someone else’s business, or with “comfortable […]

Over the course of his long career, Peter Drucker headlined countless conferences and huddled with untold groups of executives — corporate chiefs, nonprofit leaders, and government officials who hung on his every word. But he would have been the first to question whether any of these gatherings amounted to much in the end. “One either […]

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